Psychology I / The Brainstem and Cerebellum
Practice question · Match the pairs

Match each concrete role or effect to the structure responsible.

  • Keeps your heart beating and lungs breathing automatically
  • Filters incoming stimuli and decides what wakes you up
  • Makes a practiced motion like signing your name smooth and automatic
  • Relays signals between cerebrum and cerebellum and helps regulate sleep
  • Medulla
  • Pons
  • Reticular formation
  • Cerebellum
Hints
  1. Work from the function back to the structure that provides it.
  2. Vital automatic functions are the medulla; smooth practiced movement is the cerebellum; arousal filtering is the reticular formation.
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  • Keeps your heart beating and lungs breathing automatically Medulla
  • Filters incoming stimuli and decides what wakes you up Reticular formation
  • Makes a practiced motion like signing your name smooth and automatic Cerebellum
  • Relays signals between cerebrum and cerebellum and helps regulate sleep Pons
Why

Automatic vital control is the medulla, arousal-filtering is the reticular formation, smooth skilled movement is the cerebellum, and the cerebrum-cerebellum relay is the pons. Each role identifies one structure of the old brain.

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